This week's "things" were less work than the previous two weeks as I already had some of the work done. In fact, there was more done than I remembered. When I went to create a list, I saw that one was already created - which I'm assuming was done during our bibliocommons training in 2011. There was nothing in my list, so I deleted it and started from scratch as I wanted a different name attached to it. That was a good move as it refreshed my memory as to how to create a list. All very easy and user friendly. I added four titles and made a comment on a book which no one else had commented on yet. Then I went to the full record of another title on my list to see if there were any comments, which there was: 12! It didn't surprise me. I ended up following two people whose comments reflected very much what I felt about the book. It'll be interesting to see what comes out of this. This lesson was beneficial to me because although I already knew about this feature in bibliocommons, I never used it and rarely read other people's comments. I will now do both as well as promote the social reading tool to patrons who seem potential candidates for this feature.
I listened to the instruction on Goodreads and although I haven't yet set up an account, it seems to offer more than our catalogue, but appears to be less easy to use until you'd become accustomed to it. So, if a person were to be an avid reader and didn't find the social features in our catalogue to be enough, I would recommend they try Goodreads.
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